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Alan Paton

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong

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